If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.